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Red Hat and Fedora

Open source users flock to Red Hat for enterprise support, but not all subscribers like the way the company handles IT issues.
The company recently launched an updated support service. User experience is important to Red Hat Inc., and it dedicated its day-three keynote at the Red Hat Summit last month to its support.

Several research firms have weighed in on RHT. Northland Securities reissued a “buy” rating and set a $92.00 target price (up from $85.00) on shares of Red Hat in a report on Thursday, June 25th. Northland Capital Partners upped their price objective on Red Hat from $85.00 to $92.00 in a report on Thursday, June 25th. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Red Hat in a research report on Friday, June 26th. Deutsche Bank restated a “hold” rating and set a $75.00 price objective (up from $70.00) on shares of Red Hat in a research report on Thursday, July 2nd. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $85.00 target price (up previously from $82.00) on shares of Red Hat in a report on Thursday, July 2nd.

So the schedule for Flock is finally fixed and I have to update some things according to my last post. First the practical part of the Wallpaper Hunt is scheduled now for Friday now instead of Satruday. Addionally I will help Máirín Duffy on Saturday morning with the Inkscape and GIMP Bootcamp, guess which part I will do.

Few days back I wrote about a locally built Fedora 22 image which has systemd-networkd handling the network configuration. You can test that image locally on your system, or on an Openstack Cloud. In case you want to test the same on AWS, we now have two AMI(s) for the same, one in the us-west-1, and the other in ap-southeast-1. Details about the AMI(s) are below:

Leftovers: Debian

Hi all,
I just looked back on the Halloween Documents, specifically
http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html . Here are two quotes
I find both interesting and timely:
* Linux can win as long as services / protocols are commodities.
* OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server
applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized,
simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new
protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
So next time one of the new breed calls you a neckbeard for helping
build a distro with simple protocols and services, show him
http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html . And try not to
laugh when the whole thing goes right over his head.

VLANd is a python program intended to make it easy to manage port-based VLAN setups across multiple switches in a network. It is designed to be vendor-agnostic, with a clean pluggable driver API to allow for a wide range of different switches to be controlled together.

Android Leftovers

I want to make something very clear at the start of this review – I have an iPad Mini which I absolutely love. I wasn’t entirely sure about the iPad when it launched but all these years later I thought it would be stupid not to have one in the house. As it turns out, I’ve used it loads and really like it.
And then Sony sent over my review sample of the Z4 Tablet. To say it has won me over is actually reasonable. I’ve used it a lot now, carried it around with me, replaced my laptop for a short period to see how it stacks up. I have to say, it has done nothing to annoy me, and everything to worm its way into my heart. So what is it that makes the Z4 so good?

The two big phone announcements of the week featured new Android devices — the OnePlus 2 and the Moto X Style — with specs that compete well with $600-plus premium phones, yet cost between $300 and $400. We also heard that Samsung plans to “adjust” (read: reduce) the price of its $600 – $700 Galaxy S6 phone after weaker than expected sales.

Android Studio, which has been billed as the official Android IDE, will get improvements in C++ language accommodations, annotations, and memory profiling with the release of the 1.3 version this week.
Based on JetBrains' popular IntelliJ Idea Java development environment, Android Studio has been viewed by InfoWorld as a superior alternative to the Eclipse IDE. Version 1.3 is now available in the Android Studio release channel. Key features include full editing and debugging support for C++, a new memory profiler, and improved testing, according to the Android Developers Blog.

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The next official build of Android M, Preview 3, may see a bit of delay in release, according to the public Android M Developer Preview community on Google+. As stated by a moderator in the community, “We want this to be a near final release to test your apps on, but we need a little more time to get it out to you.” Preview 3 was previously scheduled to be released around late July.

Leftovers: OSS

IBM’s new developerWorks Open is a cloud-based environment on which developers can access emerging IBM technologies, technical expertise and collaborate with a global network of other developers to try and speed up projects of many diverse types. Developers can not only expect to download the code, but also have access to blogs, videos, tools and techniques to accelerate their efforts.
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